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Wikipedia has an interesting (if somewhat morbid) list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland. This blog post will show how to scrape it and plot a chart of the deaths due to these disasters over time. The list is divided into three sections: a …
Wikipedia contains biographical information about most MPs which can be scraped using Python and the BeautifulSoup library. First we need a list of MPs. It doesn't have to be particularly up-to-date, so I'm using the list of those MPs elected at the 2015 General Election. …
The website exoplanets.org hosts a repository of data on over 5000 exoplanets discovered by various missions and techniques. For this post, I have extracted data on the mass and orbital period of 2951 exoplanets: exoplanet-data-160824.csv. The planetary masses are expressed relative to the mass of …
The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre is a non-profit organisation devoted to small-molecule crystallography data. It curates, validates and distributes the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) of over 800,000 organic and metal-organic crystal structures. The CSD has an excellent Python API which can be used to analyse …
Spoiler: I don't know and nor does anyone else. One of the predictions that some people have made about the effect of global warming is the increase in frequency and intensity of severe weather events such as tornadoes. Unfortunately, the analysis of records of such …
